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secondaries the fold is smoky; a broad band of fulvous precedes it, 
extending from the base to the outer margin; on the remainder of the 
wing the color is paler, and all the veins white and conspicuous. Fringe 
of all the wings brown, becoming white at the internal angles. 
Above, head and thorax fulvous; abdomen black; its sides partly 
clothed with whitish-yellow hairs ; palpi fulvous, tipped with black. Below, 
abdomen and palpi white; breast mouse-coloured. Antennæ annulated ; 
above, brown; below, whitish-yellow ; underside of club red. 
The female expands 1.5 inches and is like the male, with the following 
exceptions : The stigma is wanting, and the fulvous on the primaries above 
is very obscure, being most apparent along the costa. Two small, semi- 
transparent yellow spots occur near the middle of the primaries; the one 
nearest the apex being so small as to be indistinct ; the other is a little 
larger. 
Variety 4, ®. Same as above, but the two spots in the centre of the 
primaries are much larger ; the upper is triangular, the lower and largest - 
nearly square. Three linear spots of nearly equal size appear between the 
subcostal veinlets, near the apex, and a long rectangular spot surmounts 
the submedian vein about half way between the base and outer edge of 
the wing. All these spots are reproduced below. 
This species was discovered by Mr. E. A. Dodge, in Burcan County, 
Illinois. The first specimen was taken June 2oth, 1872. It was quite 
abundant upon grassy slopes on the high rolling prairie that forms the 
divide between the Illinois and Rock rivers. | Over forty specimens were 
taken, nine of which were females. Two weeks later Hesperia Powesheik, 
Parker, appeared abundantly in the same locality. : 
The writer will exchange specimens of either of the above-mentioned 
species for most of those North American butterflies not of common 
occurrence in Northern Illinois. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
VANESSA ANTIOPA, OR PAPILIO ANTIOPA ?—The unusual abundance 
of this insect in many parts of Europe the present year, and its great 
influx into England, have given it unusual prominence in late numbers of 
our trans-Atlantic Entomological periodicals. I have been a little 
interested in watching to see how many of the writers would follow our 
friend Scudder’s “ Revision,” and call the insect “ Papilio Antiopa, ” and 
have not yet met with one.—C. V. R., Sr. Louis, Mo. 
